Freedom Limitation Quotes

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.

Government is the natural enemy of freedom.

If this newspaper pestilence shall continue for fifty years more, the intelligence of our people will be destroyed.... Hold fast and zealously, therefore, to the slogan I now ask you to make your own: hatred and contempt, death and destruction, of the press of today.

Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

To uphold state security China like many other countries of the world has placed some restrictions on the Internet to protect the freedom of the majority of the people.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

We have a great deal of freedom in America, but there are mechanisms that inhibit us from using it.

All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

It has been held, right up to the present day, that the freedom of individual must take second place to the security of the State.....

But there are some persons who wouldpersuade the people never to make use of their constitutional rights.

The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

The passion and will for freedom is always contradicted by the necessity of the state.

The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.